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brown's side, weren't you? >> what i said in the statement was that in the latter years, and again, it's been much political commentary this term, much of which you've asked me to read for this inquiry, but the latter years of tony blair's prime minister should, the hostilities between him and gordon brown has been increasingly worse. and so they are to become a sort of tony blair at camp and the court brown camp. and our particular issues, for example, the world reform bill i think was we first tried to get through in 2004, hostilities between gordon brown and tony blair were such that it didn't get through at that time. we tried again it's very important to have an insight of the hostilities for effect in the way to govern. so you would have an opinion on them. >> whose side were you on? >> neither. on the side of the readers. it wasn't an automatic given that alastair campbell or charlie william were telling you the truth. it was our job to judge and analyze it. >> you told us you were friends with mr. blair
brown's side, weren't you? >> what i said in the statement was that in the latter years, and again, it's been much political commentary this term, much of which you've asked me to read for this inquiry, but the latter years of tony blair's prime minister should, the hostilities between him and gordon brown has been increasingly worse. and so they are to become a sort of tony blair at camp and the court brown camp. and our particular issues, for example, the world reform bill i think was...
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brown. is that fair? you did say your list may not be complete in relation to mr. brown. >> i know my list is not complete. i am not sure. i'm sure tony blair had to release the formal and informal meetings and i'm pretty sure if they have, there will be meetings at downing street with mr. brown from that. in may, right up until september. i don't know how many there are. >> the topic of conversation on the third of may 2009 to remember any specific events. did it cover political issues? >> it was done in general terms. there were people at the lunch, but again late 2009, i'm not quite sure that my memory is correct, but i am pretty sure the european constitution debate what shall we say at large as well as afghanistan at the time. so they may have been two of the issues. >> we know on the ninth of september 2009, mr. james murdoch called mr. cameron is the drink of the george that "the sun" was support the conservative party in the next election and the headline was on the front page. i thi
brown. is that fair? you did say your list may not be complete in relation to mr. brown. >> i know my list is not complete. i am not sure. i'm sure tony blair had to release the formal and informal meetings and i'm pretty sure if they have, there will be meetings at downing street with mr. brown from that. in may, right up until september. i don't know how many there are. >> the topic of conversation on the third of may 2009 to remember any specific events. did it cover political...
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brown, wasn't he? >> my understanding of how news international works in terms of appointments of editors is that he would not have involved a conversation to either that stage by the way because it was sometime after that that rebekah was promoted, quite sometime after that. and also i just didn't believe it. i came away believing that this was an attempt by mr. brown to sort of impress on me his closeness to mr. murdoch. and i, quite frankly i didn't believe it. >> it was certainly an attempt by mr. brown to impress on you his proximity to mr. murdoch. that's clear. that was the strong message he was transmitting to you. his two predictions were right, weren't they? >> his two predictions were right. i did become the editor of "the sun." i would say his predictions go, -- [inaudible] >> you might have become the rebekah was promoted, took the -- >> she was sometime later, yes. >> you refer then to mr. osborne, you say you met with him in 2005, this is paragraph 37 -- >> yes. >> did you get on well wi
brown, wasn't he? >> my understanding of how news international works in terms of appointments of editors is that he would not have involved a conversation to either that stage by the way because it was sometime after that that rebekah was promoted, quite sometime after that. and also i just didn't believe it. i came away believing that this was an attempt by mr. brown to sort of impress on me his closeness to mr. murdoch. and i, quite frankly i didn't believe it. >> it was...
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brown. spent to you have any discussions with mr. brown about whether they should be a map election? >> no. >> were you unaware of the -- >> let me say, i don't remember. >> there is evidence, somewhere, i think in mr. walmsley -- >> if any politician wanted my opinion on the major matter, they only had to rea read the editorials in "the sun." >> well, mr. walmsley, says the decision to call off this election was taken before the sixth of october, so he's right. you could have discussed it with mr. brown. maybe we can't really -- >> but -- >> others have suggested it. we have heard your evidence on the topic, mr. murdoch. i'm not going to press that any further. can i move forward with mr. brown? june 2008, we can take just one month. the documents demonstrate that you had dinner with mr. brown on the sixth of june and a respective wives were present to you except that? >> yes. >> fourteenth of june was the famous slumber party where, i don't believe you were present. >> i think they were ju
brown. spent to you have any discussions with mr. brown about whether they should be a map election? >> no. >> were you unaware of the -- >> let me say, i don't remember. >> there is evidence, somewhere, i think in mr. walmsley -- >> if any politician wanted my opinion on the major matter, they only had to rea read the editorials in "the sun." >> well, mr. walmsley, says the decision to call off this election was taken before the sixth of october,...
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brown: thank you, mr. president. last week the vice president of the united states was in my state in ohio in the youngstown area in northeast ohio and he saw what i've been seeing in my state for the last several months and he heard what i've been hearing from so many ohioans in the last several months. he went to the lordstown auto assembly plant which makes the chevy cruze and he saw what we've been seeing in my state, where manufacturing finally is coming back. from 200 to 2010, from early 2000 to january 2010, the manufacturing sector in this country lost a huge number of jobs, more than 5 million jobs. now, the -- about the 35 years before that manufacturing jobs in this country were pretty constant. they were up and down, but in 1997 oar 1998, we had about the same number of manufacturing jobs in america that we had in 1965. a smaller percent of the workforce, a smaller percent of g.d.p. perhaps, but roughly the same number of jobs. but from 2000 to january 2010, we lost some estimates were as high as one of t
brown: thank you, mr. president. last week the vice president of the united states was in my state in ohio in the youngstown area in northeast ohio and he saw what i've been seeing in my state for the last several months and he heard what i've been hearing from so many ohioans in the last several months. he went to the lordstown auto assembly plant which makes the chevy cruze and he saw what we've been seeing in my state, where manufacturing finally is coming back. from 200 to 2010, from early...
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most of them have been kept by gordon brown and david cameron. and other people got up to all sorts of stuff. there's no doubt about that. and part of politics is part of life. i tried to control at the center. i tried to keep a grip of things. but the reality is there are hundreds of people out there the whole time who -- anybody who works on downing street in the eyes of a journalist is a senior downing street source. anybody who works in the home office is a senior home office source. i think we did a pretty good job in having proper coordination at the center, but it's very difficult to maintain that. >> mr. powell points the finger of blame in a particular place. he says "it's the special advisers like the damian o'brieens, charlie wheelers, and ed balzes, not -- who specialize in character assassination through the pages of the newspapers. what always surprised me was that the assassins managed to persuade the press to keep quiet about their activities. however many incriminating e-mails or texts they sent." >> that's a very good point. in
most of them have been kept by gordon brown and david cameron. and other people got up to all sorts of stuff. there's no doubt about that. and part of politics is part of life. i tried to control at the center. i tried to keep a grip of things. but the reality is there are hundreds of people out there the whole time who -- anybody who works on downing street in the eyes of a journalist is a senior downing street source. anybody who works in the home office is a senior home office source. i...
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brown: mr. brown: i withdraw that request. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: under the previous offered, the senate stands in recess until 2:15 p.m. >> we recently spoke with a capitol hill reporter. >>> emily etheridge with congressional quarterly. what are the key issues ahead as the senate debates the food and drug administration bill. >> already included in a manager's amendment we'll see on the floor. i it is about a national drug tracing system allow manufacturers to trace drugs with a serial number as they pass through the system. we'll see drug importation and pda more power to investigate things and give employees whistle-blower protections. >> what is the overall purpose of this fda reauthorization? >> purpose of the user fee program is to give the fda more money to conduct its reviews of products like drugs and medical devices to get money from the companies who are applying to get their drugs or products approved. the fda says they really need this money. they count on it to be able to do the things they do to approve these n
brown: mr. brown: i withdraw that request. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: under the previous offered, the senate stands in recess until 2:15 p.m. >> we recently spoke with a capitol hill reporter. >>> emily etheridge with congressional quarterly. what are the key issues ahead as the senate debates the food and drug administration bill. >> already included in a manager's amendment we'll see on the floor. i it is about a national drug tracing system allow...
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and then you get down into brown, harvard, he'll were you were well under 16%. it was a great one-two punch. these people were scared. c-span: unit to see the college board. >> guest: no, i didn't. i spent time with their critics, one of whom i talk about in their pod schaeffer was a big critic. >> guest: what they described them in their offices and how much money they make. >> guest: that was bob schieffer. c-span: who was bob schieffer? >> guest: i think he has had bergerac her and he is a long-standing organization dedicated to basically eliminating achievement or aptitude tests from college admissions and beyond that from everywhere in the work place and graduate schools and so on. they are dedicated to the idea that the s.a.t., the azt, another college admission classes quite as popular now, but they believe the s.a.t. as essentially a racist and class this document that heavily favors white upper-middle-class people and should be abolished. c-span: who believes that? >> guest: fair testing. i don't think they are right at all. i've been in there about the
and then you get down into brown, harvard, he'll were you were well under 16%. it was a great one-two punch. these people were scared. c-span: unit to see the college board. >> guest: no, i didn't. i spent time with their critics, one of whom i talk about in their pod schaeffer was a big critic. >> guest: what they described them in their offices and how much money they make. >> guest: that was bob schieffer. c-span: who was bob schieffer? >> guest: i think he has had...
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-- thomas brown from the cme church. they'll call out our man paul. [laughter] we'll leave for lunch and come back at two o'clock for -- what question was that? [inaudible] we'll have that over here. okay, so having said that, please go to lunch, go quickly. we've got to do more. lunch is right down -- [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >>> our live day long conference on this conference of voting rights continues at 2 p.m. eastern. panelists talk about a tax exempt status in an effort to obscure vote r rights. that wraps up at about 5 p.m. eastern, and it's hosted by the congressional black caucus and conference of national black churches. we have more live programming coming up on the c-span networks. at 4 p.m. eastern, c-span3 covers oversight and purchase for prosthetics for veterans. that's live on c-span3 at 4 p.m. eastern. also with the senate on break all this week, we're featuring some of booktv's weekend programs in prime time here
-- thomas brown from the cme church. they'll call out our man paul. [laughter] we'll leave for lunch and come back at two o'clock for -- what question was that? [inaudible] we'll have that over here. okay, so having said that, please go to lunch, go quickly. we've got to do more. lunch is right down -- [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >>> our live day long conference on this conference of voting rights...
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brown: wow. that was interesting. i remember the senator was speaking before me before we left she was praising the republicans for working with her, one republican specifically, about how appreciative she was about working together and taking the time in a bipartisan manner to work forward on a very important piece of legislation that she was spearheading and we worked for. we didn't filibuster that. we didn't filibuster the postal bill, we didn't filibuster the violence against women, the crowdfunding or the insider trading bill but all of a sudden we're filibustering now. bottom line, we wants an opportunity to have an alternative proposal and have a full and fair debate and i think the american people are smart. i know the smerp are -- american people are smarter than that. and i stand before you today to just reference that most students and parents know that in july the fixed interest rates on subsidized government student loans are set to double. that was very eloquently pointed out just now. but let's be clear
brown: wow. that was interesting. i remember the senator was speaking before me before we left she was praising the republicans for working with her, one republican specifically, about how appreciative she was about working together and taking the time in a bipartisan manner to work forward on a very important piece of legislation that she was spearheading and we worked for. we didn't filibuster that. we didn't filibuster the postal bill, we didn't filibuster the violence against women, the...
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brown: i continue and want to family size the remarks that senator lautenberg made. it makes no sense that district judges -- i've not been here that long, but what i've seen happen in the last couple, three years about judges appointed by the president of the united states being slow walked or just ignored or blocked in this body is just outrageous. my first month in office, i was presented with a republican judge coming from a republican president, 2007, approved by my predecessor, senator dewine, and my seat mate, my colleague, senator voinovich. i met with her. i talked with her. i sent up to the judiciary committee my approval. she was confirmed within the first quarter of my first three months -- was confirmed in the second or third month that i was here, because i believed that the president of the united states should have the right to choose judges as long as they're qualified. that's why i ask us to move forward on these judicial nominations. in june 2010, u.s. district judge james carr took senior status creating a vacancy in the northern district court in
brown: i continue and want to family size the remarks that senator lautenberg made. it makes no sense that district judges -- i've not been here that long, but what i've seen happen in the last couple, three years about judges appointed by the president of the united states being slow walked or just ignored or blocked in this body is just outrageous. my first month in office, i was presented with a republican judge coming from a republican president, 2007, approved by my predecessor, senator...
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. >> gentlemen, before i pitch to my colleague ron brown, editorial director of the nj. give a round of applause for rich, john and eliot. [applause] >> thank you. all of you have sat through a incredibly nutritious course. two panels on difference between domestic and foreign policy between president obama and mitt romney. now comes the dessert. >> a bunch of twinkies? >> exactly before either man can implement policies in 2013 they have to win election in november. for the final panel we'll, more how the issue debate will affect the election campaign. to do so we have a joel, who is the president of the benniso in strategy group. -- president obama and advised a array of governors, and mayors. [inaudible] -- most unexpected result. kevin is advisor to the mitt romney campaign in 2008. as a campaign's national press secretary and communication strategists, -- former press secretary john boehner and vice president of jda front line, -- he had quartered in charleston, south carolina. >> you're all invited down. >> we'll meet at hank's. peter brown is assistant director of
. >> gentlemen, before i pitch to my colleague ron brown, editorial director of the nj. give a round of applause for rich, john and eliot. [applause] >> thank you. all of you have sat through a incredibly nutritious course. two panels on difference between domestic and foreign policy between president obama and mitt romney. now comes the dessert. >> a bunch of twinkies? >> exactly before either man can implement policies in 2013 they have to win election in november. for...
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so you're, you know, the president of colorado university, hank brown -- who, by the way, has stepped down. he must wake up every morning and think, my god, he will not give up. it cost the university so much money to get rid of these people even when they have a great case. play jarrism, shoddy scholarship, there was so much wrong, yet it will continue going through the courts. the lesson identify gotten if -- i've gotten if you look at inside higher ed or one of these industry nude letter -- newsletters, they periodically run advice on how administrators can gently push these people out. and one of them i was sort of shocked to read was how an administrator can say to a professor for whom it's time to go, well, you can still teach one class, okay? so one guy wrote in saying that they had tried this at his school, you know, so they had hired a new, young professor, dynamic professor to take the place of this aging professor that everybody agreed was incompetent. and then they had this fight over who was going to teach this one class because the professor -- well, you promised i could
so you're, you know, the president of colorado university, hank brown -- who, by the way, has stepped down. he must wake up every morning and think, my god, he will not give up. it cost the university so much money to get rid of these people even when they have a great case. play jarrism, shoddy scholarship, there was so much wrong, yet it will continue going through the courts. the lesson identify gotten if -- i've gotten if you look at inside higher ed or one of these industry nude letter --...
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me, also senators shaheen and klobuchar and merkley and sanders and the presiding officer, senator brown. this amendment addresses the very same issue that the senator from maine was talking about, and that is how do we bring down the price of prescription drugs? thousand do we get competition -- how do we get competition into the market for prescription drugs? we have a circumstance today which, an anticompetitive, anticonsumer practice is engaged in, and our amendment will change the law so that that practice can no longer be engaged in. now the practice i'm talking about is the entering into so-called pay for delay settlements between brand name drugs, brand-name pharmaceutical companies and generic manufacturers that have the effect, these pay-for-delay settlements have the effect of delaying timely access to generic drugs. these agreements between these companies shield billions of dollars in sales each year from effective competition. the pharmaceutical companies benefit from this lack of competition, and they do so at the expense of consumers. they do so at the expense of the fede
me, also senators shaheen and klobuchar and merkley and sanders and the presiding officer, senator brown. this amendment addresses the very same issue that the senator from maine was talking about, and that is how do we bring down the price of prescription drugs? thousand do we get competition -- how do we get competition into the market for prescription drugs? we have a circumstance today which, an anticompetitive, anticonsumer practice is engaged in, and our amendment will change the law so...
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i've been to brown. i've been to georgetown, yale to defend israel. and ago from the left or i do in part because by doing one thing i want to give credit to the netanyahu government, regular public and party, the right republican party won't like it, but in history of the united states, three government leaders have said pro-gay rights things from house of representatives. .. >> with real security for israel, it's not israel's fault. and there are political pressures, and here's the deal, there are clearly political pressures within that democracy, israel, that i believe pull them away from what is the most effective international advocate si, and i am very pleased to try and do some counseling. in the end, the obama administration has taken no negative actions against the israeli government because of a disagreement unlike the bush administration. what we have, though, is, i think, a much more effective way of defending them, and the results are very clear. >> it's good. i just want to point out for the record that it's wonderful to have barney fran
i've been to brown. i've been to georgetown, yale to defend israel. and ago from the left or i do in part because by doing one thing i want to give credit to the netanyahu government, regular public and party, the right republican party won't like it, but in history of the united states, three government leaders have said pro-gay rights things from house of representatives. .. >> with real security for israel, it's not israel's fault. and there are political pressures, and here's the...
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myself and senator snowe, senator pryor, senator lieberman, senator enzi, senator kerry, senator brown, cantwell, ayotte, cardin and hagan; a very good representation of our small business committee and others, mr. president, that filed a resolution this week, again, and we've done so every year since 1953. we've done so every year since 1953, to recognize this week, or one week in the year as small business week. and so that's what our resolution which was filed earlier today does. and i hope that leaders mcconnell and reid will take this up and pass it, so that we can honor the 28 million small businesses that exist today in america. we've been doing everything we can, and i'm very proud as the chairman of the small business committee that we've worked in a bipartisan fashion for the most part, trying to give our businesses, first of all, the recognition that nine out of ten new jobs created are being created by a small number of small businesses that are fast growing. they are the net new job creators. these are the businesses that are going to be putting this recession behind us. t
myself and senator snowe, senator pryor, senator lieberman, senator enzi, senator kerry, senator brown, cantwell, ayotte, cardin and hagan; a very good representation of our small business committee and others, mr. president, that filed a resolution this week, again, and we've done so every year since 1953. we've done so every year since 1953, to recognize this week, or one week in the year as small business week. and so that's what our resolution which was filed earlier today does. and i...
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and do things like governor bentley in alabama is doing, governor christie has had to do, governor brown is now facing in california -- they have let that state go so far out of control, it's going to be difficult to bring it back. but they have to make tough choices. so if we do that, i believe we will get some positive impact on the economy just from the confidence that restores. senator conrad, i see senator lieberman's here. i would be willing to yield back if you're ready to use some time now. mr. conrad: i would like to say to my colleague we have 17 minutes left on this side. we have four senators left to speak. you've got, i think, probably 54, 53 minutes left, something like that. senator lieberman, if you could take about four minutes, if that would work for you. mr. lieberman: i was hoping for four and a quarter minutes. mr. sessions: i yield 4 minutes to the senator from our side. mr. lieberman: thank you. mr. sessions: a flat 8 -- mr. lieberman: pardon? mr. sessions: you'd have a flat 8 minutes. mr. lieberman: that's very generous of my friend. i thank the senator from north
and do things like governor bentley in alabama is doing, governor christie has had to do, governor brown is now facing in california -- they have let that state go so far out of control, it's going to be difficult to bring it back. but they have to make tough choices. so if we do that, i believe we will get some positive impact on the economy just from the confidence that restores. senator conrad, i see senator lieberman's here. i would be willing to yield back if you're ready to use some time...
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operates, then the current pm and chancellor, all former prime ministers including tony blair and gordon brown and former chancellors might want to consider revealing their texts and e-mails to company executives. .. more than any individual alive he is to blame. morally the deeds are his. he paid the piper and he caught the tune. it was his company, his culture, his people, his business, his failures, his lies, his crimes. the price of profits and his power. >> thank you, tom. i think it is fair to say that was not the unanimous view of the committee. [laughter] phillip davis. >> coming back to the report, which i don't think of that was anything to do with the report but if we come back to the report i think the chairman was right to focus on the parts of the report where we you unanimously agreed and that was on the people who misled the committee and the way in which they did mislead the committee and i very much hope people won't get sidelined by the other bits, bits of what we've just heard of. and which were not the overwhelming view of the committee. they aren't the unanimous view ever
operates, then the current pm and chancellor, all former prime ministers including tony blair and gordon brown and former chancellors might want to consider revealing their texts and e-mails to company executives. .. more than any individual alive he is to blame. morally the deeds are his. he paid the piper and he caught the tune. it was his company, his culture, his people, his business, his failures, his lies, his crimes. the price of profits and his power. >> thank you, tom. i think it...
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i want to thank in particular my colleague senator brown from massachusetts and senator toomey from pennsylvania who have spoken on this issue and understand completely the devastation that this tax will create for patients and for employers that provide good jobs for communities in their states. thanks to obamacare, medical devices will get hit with a $28 billion tax. and so we are clear about what these medical devices are. they include surgical tools, bed pans, wheelchairs, stethoscopes and countless other projects that patients and doctors rely on every day. surgical masks, gloves, blood pressure monitors, scissors, needles, lights, stents, pacemakers, scales, scalpels, ankle, knee and hip braces and a lot more. the cost of all these products is going up, thanks to this tax. somebody is going to have to pay for it, and that somebody is the already overburdened american taxpayer and middle-class breadwinner. the president and his supporters seem to think you can simply tax corporations and individuals with impunity and face no adverse economic consequences. yet, economists understand that whe
i want to thank in particular my colleague senator brown from massachusetts and senator toomey from pennsylvania who have spoken on this issue and understand completely the devastation that this tax will create for patients and for employers that provide good jobs for communities in their states. thanks to obamacare, medical devices will get hit with a $28 billion tax. and so we are clear about what these medical devices are. they include surgical tools, bed pans, wheelchairs, stethoscopes and...
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i've been to berkeley california and i've been to brown and to georgetown, yale to defend israel and i do it from the left in part because one of the things i want to give credit to as the netanyahu government. the right republican party, whether the history of the united states three government leaders have said pro-things from the house of representatives. bill clinton, barack obama and benjamin netanyahu made a very strong pro-gay statement. is one of the few times when the republicans did not stand up to applaud him. but the fact is that if your position is that you're just going to defend whatever the israeli government does, then your credibility as a worldwide defender of israel is weekend. i do not think it is possible and the administration hasn't is hasn't done it to say it's israel's responsibility to get piece. what israel needs to do is make it clear that if there is not a genuine two-state solution with real security for israel it is not israel's fault and there are political pressures and here's the deal. there a clearly political pressures within that democracy of isr
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brown: thank you, madam president. i want to join senator reed of rhode island who just spoke very persuasively about -- certainly about the need to freeze interest rates for stafford loans, for college students in america, and also spoke, i thought very convincingly, about closing a tax loophole that -- that has clearly been used to avoid -- legally, but to avoid taxes by lobbyists, consulting groups, some lawyers, all of whom are making -- using this tax loophole for -- to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars in many cases. the case of former senator john edwards and his law firm, not like most law firms but in his law firm and former speaker newt gingrich, one a democrat, one a republican, has shown the size of this loophole and how it can turn into tens of thousands of dollars. again, legally. i'm not accusing either of these gentlemen of illegal activity. only taking advantage of a loophole that we should close. but i come to the floor today more to make the case of how important these stafford loans, these su
brown: thank you, madam president. i want to join senator reed of rhode island who just spoke very persuasively about -- certainly about the need to freeze interest rates for stafford loans, for college students in america, and also spoke, i thought very convincingly, about closing a tax loophole that -- that has clearly been used to avoid -- legally, but to avoid taxes by lobbyists, consulting groups, some lawyers, all of whom are making -- using this tax loophole for -- to the tune of tens of...
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stopped working on the issues of water access including being a champion of the web water project in brown county in north central south dakota that began in 1983. the question of water was never far from jim's mind and i think it had something to do with his heritage. that certainly is true of his lyman county roots which is where the humid midwest begins to turn into the arid high plains. but also of his roots in lebanon where water is also scarce. his family's home village was founded because it was a watering hole. its name means spring or well. more specifically, it means spring of the arab. when they had enough water there, they would grow wheat like the abdnors would do in lyman county, south dakota. jim's is a story about organizing. as soon as he came home from college he started organizing republicans in lyman county and became head of the lyman county young republicans. he helped organize and founds the elks lodge in pierre in 1953. he joined every organization he could and brought as many people into community affairs and politics and civic organizations as he could as well. ji
stopped working on the issues of water access including being a champion of the web water project in brown county in north central south dakota that began in 1983. the question of water was never far from jim's mind and i think it had something to do with his heritage. that certainly is true of his lyman county roots which is where the humid midwest begins to turn into the arid high plains. but also of his roots in lebanon where water is also scarce. his family's home village was founded...